Home

PACIFICON 2018

San Ramon Marriott2600 Bishop DriveSan RamonCA94583

Friday through Sunday
Oct. 19-21, 2018

Our Theme: Sounds Like Fun

Pacificon
gives you three great days of activities for one low cost:
* A full slate
of outstanding Forum presentations
about a wide range of amateur radio
topics
* A large Vendor Expo filled with exciting products and exhibits
* An outdoor Swap Meet
* QRP activities
* Youth Activities
* Electronics kit
building and soldering instruction
* A One Day License Prep Class to prepare you to pass the amateur
radio Technician license examination and get your first amateur radio
license* Two days of License Testing
* A Special Events Station where you can operate and contact
other hams worldwide, even if you don't have a General or Extra Class
license
* A wonderful Banquet with Keynote Speaker Jeri Ellsworth, AI6TK
* Our annual Wouff Hong Initiation ceremony
* A chance to hear about and discuss important national amateur
radio issues with top ARRL leaders
* A chance to win radios and other
great prizes throughout the convention

And perhaps the best part - a
chance to interact and share information with lots of other amateur
radio enthusiasts to further (or begin) your own knowledge and to
advance the hobby.

Pacificon Announcements

06/20/2018The Pacificon Digital Dinner has a new location this year: Clementine's; just across I-680 from the Marriott. See our Digital Dinner page for details.

06/14/2018A new introductory video is now available at the bottom of the home page; prepared by none other than Randy Hall, K7AGE. Check it out; and Thank You, Randy!

06/08/2018The Hotel Layout page has been redrawn to make it more clear and to add details. Take a look at it here.

06/04/2018A partial list of topics and speakers is now available on our Antenna Seminar page. Check them out.

05/22/2018A partial list of vendors is now on the web site. Check it out on our Vendors List page. More vendors will be added to the list when they're confirmed, so keeping checking back.

05/04/2018Customized Pacificon 2018 T-Shirts are now available to order! See our T-Shirts page for details and a link to order.

04/27/2018Our Brochure page has been updated with the current 2018 brochure. go to Brochure page, down load the PDF and hand out copies.

PACIFICON is looking for qualified people to give presentations at our next
conference. Just a few of the topics we're looking for include tuning
duplexers,
coax termination, configuring certain handheld radios, fundamentals of
radio technology, antennas, public service, emergency response, digital communications, maker kits and just
about any other subject of interest to hams.

If you are interested in presenting at PACIFICON, please go to ourSpeakers Proposals page
to complete the speaker application

Volunteersmake all the difference at Pacificon.We need your help in all areas
to make Pacificon the best conference possible. Whether it be
registration, security, the talk-in station, forums or any of the many
other events, we can use your help. Even just a couple of hours will be
appreciated. We also need volunteers to help plan and prepare for the
Big Weekend. Go to our Volunteers registration page